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| Are white people smarter than blacks? November, 2007 |
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| Are Blacks less Intelligent than Whites? |
Scientific Racism and Eugenics; Ideas that were thrown on history's trash heap.
Are blacks less intelligent than whites? Some people think so. Part 1
Are blacks less intelligent?
Generally speaking, many white people think they are smarter than black people. And a lot of blacks agree with them. Some blacks believe that they are intellectually inferior to whites.
Some blacks also think that they are physically superior to whites. And many whites agree with them. Many whites believe that blacks are better dancers and athletes.
Where do these notions come from? And are they true?
Each person must look to their own hearts and minds to understand the roots of racism, bigotry, discrimination and exploitation. If we are ever going to solve the problems of race in America we must look inward, at ourselves, to see our own prejudices.
It was reported in the London Sunday Times Magazine that noted genetic scientist and Nobel Prize Winner, James Watson said that blacks were less intelligent than whites.
In the October 14, 2007 interview:
He [Watson] says that he is “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really”, and I know that this “hot potato” is going to be difficult to address. His hope is that everyone is equal, but he counters that “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true”. He says that you should not discriminate on the basis of colour, because “there are many people of colour who are very talented, but don’t promote them when they haven’t succeeded at the lower level”. He writes that “there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so”.
Dr. Watson was the Chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory before the research organization suspended his administrative duties. (Note: they didn’t fire him.)
Watson’s startling remarks raises the specter of “Scientific Racism”. During the 1800’s white scientists and political leaders rationalized their imperialistic exploitation of non-whites around the world. One hundred years ago the science of Eugenics categorized Jews, blacks and others as genetically inferior. Such scientific theories led to the sterilization of the “feeble-minded” and gave rise to Nazism in Germany in 1933.
Watson’s words are particularly troubling because of where he worked - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. According to the Scientific American blog site: “What is today known as Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was once at the center of the American eugenics movement, where it was home to the Eugenics Record Office from 1910 to 1939, at first under the tutelage of the infamous eugenicists Charles Benedict Davenport and Harry Laughlin.”
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